The course aims at giving the students an opportunity to experience individual scholarly research on traditional building materials. The student chooses a research topic of a single building, or group of buildings. The study is based on site survey and documentation, library research on this chosen research topic, research on others from the same settlement, same period and other. Two – three weeks are given for each research project and the students make a presentation of their projects at the end of this time. The seminar presentation is aimed at making the students get familiar in presenting their research topic in a given  time, 15-20 minutes, but in a holistic format. This presentation is followed with a written report.  

Priority is given to students who have already taken Cons 553 or 554 and acquired a basic knowledge on the traditional building materials used in Anatolian architecture from the early bginnings to the 17th century.  acapurse is conducted in different formats based on the research interest of the students:

A.Book research or litrature survey

B.Case studies based on field surveys, for practical reasons exercsed mostly in Ankara. this topic has varietiessuch as a single building or a group of period buildings can be stydied by a group of studentsç Or each student can choose a different topic.